They say it's all in how you think. The attitude you adopt when you wake up shapes the day. How you frame a problem is critical to yielding appropriate solutions. And so on.
Perhaps Remo Belli, inventor of the Mylar drum head, has discovered the possible future for the classical music "crisis." As Remo says in this article, aren't we really in the "Life Enhancement" business? In our obsession with providing paying performance opportunities for professionals is there room for providing opportunities for life-long amateurs to study and perform or just derive casual benefit from listening to and playing music? Wouldn't creating more "uses" for our art bring more performance opportunities and more paying audiences not to mention more students?
